[vtkusers] raw buffer access in Tcl

H.Vidal, Jr. hvidal at tesseract-tech.com
Thu Jun 12 17:09:05 EDT 2003


I just discovered that many vtk in objects in Tcl have a ListMethods 
method that dumps out available methods on object. Many methods for some 
objects that are listed in Doxygen listing are not listed in ListMethods 
output. Specifically, it seems that none of the raw pointer access calls 
for things like vtkIntArray ( or any vtkDataArray child class) have 
exposed things like GetPointer() in Tcl, whereas header files in C++ seem 
to 'publicly' expose these methods. Why is this? Tcl is made to glue very 
nicely with C, so gluing vtk with more (high speed) C, say for acquisition 
and data loading purposes, would seem a very logical thing. Any thoughts 
from experienced developers and/or users?

H.Vidal, Jr.





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